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• Title:Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of nature in each quarter of the world.
  
• Publication:London : E. Wallis, 1st Novr. 1818.
  
• Physical Description:1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 48 x 64 cm, folded to 24 x 17 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GV1199 .W35 1818
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy includes original slipcase and instruction booklet.
  
• Notes:A board game.
  Selected exhibitions: "Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection" (Yale Center for British Art, 17 January-23 May, 2019).
  
• Summary:Edward Wallis's game board consists of twenty-six vignettes depicting different natural sites around the world. Geological "wonders of nature," such as 'Fingal's Cave on the Island of Staffa' and dramatic natural disasters, like the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 that resulted in 70,000 deaths, are described in the accompanying booklet, along with any forfeits the player might have to pay upon landing on certain spaces. Arriving at 'Ice Mountains of the North Pole', for example, meant the player lost his turns three times: "whoever is so daring as to go venture amidst these awful scenes, must be frozen in, while the other players spin thrice round."
  
• Variant and related titles:Wallis's game, Wonders of nature
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Liman, E. Georgian and Victorian board games, pages 17, 172-175
  Whitehouse, F.R.B. Table games of Georgian and Victorian days, page 38
  
• Subjects:Nature.
  Educational games--Great Britain--Specimens.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Liman, Ellen and Arthur--Provenance.
  
• Genre/Form:Games--Great Britain.
  Recreations--Great Britain.
  Board games.
  Engravings--Hand-colored--1818.
  
• Also listed under:Wallis, Edward, publisher.
  Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)